| To: | Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH 36/37] xfs: flush outstanding buffers on log mount failure |
| From: | Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:55:55 -0400 |
| Cc: | xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <1335160747-17254-37-git-send-email-david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| References: | <1335160747-17254-1-git-send-email-david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <1335160747-17254-37-git-send-email-david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 03:59:06PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> > > When we fail to mount the log in xfs_mountfs(), we tear down all the > infrastructure we have already allocated. However, the process of > mounting the log may have progressed to the point of reading, > caching and modifying buffers in memory. Hence before we can free > all the infrastructure, we have to flush and remove all the buffers > from memory. > > Problem first reported by Eric Sandeen, later a different incarnation > was reported by Ben Myers. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Looks good, Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> |
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